RE-thinking Indian Traditional concept of Chatur-Varnashrama (4-Stages of Bal,G,V,S & Samadhi)) based on body/Mind-age as socio-stages.. “Chatura-shrama” (Wise-Efforts) based on Self-image (Part/Role) & Stage (Place/Play). Choice between Wise-Efforts(+ve) or Vice-Efforts(-ve). Entrapped-Minds/Families/Groups create Entrapments and Empowered-Minds create Global-Empowerments. The modes can be derived based on cumulative Positive-Interactions(Verbs-Means) & Positive-Work(Nouns-Ends).
What’s the Wise:Vice Ratio of an Ideology (Radical-Communism), Ideologues (Lenin-Mao) & IdeoPlaces (Kremlin-Beijing)? (An increment to Trulse-Ratio) Can be given by the concepts here..
Important Question.. Why more Crimes & injustices are happening around us, if we & our world is advancing Scientific & Technologically?
Serious & Urgent Questions Eg: Minors(under 18Yrs) commiting Gang-Rape in Cyberabad (my closest cyber smart City of India) due to Pubbing & Fapping and Minors killing their Parents due to PUBG apps, drivers, kids and pedestrians causing accidents-hurt & deaths due to Phubbing. Is India Heading towards Dark-ages of the Dark-net?
3. US figures maybe close to or half of unrecorded Indian figures. https://www.statista.com/chart/9041/crashes-involving-cell-phone-use/
Our Short Answer: Peace & Justice are less related to Our Scientific & Technological (What+Where & How) progress, More to do with our Civic & Ethical progress (Why+Who+Wow) in Society(Humanities).
More of Us are getting in to the gear of an Entertained-Entrapped mind and less people are Engaged-Empowered-minds. The Conflicts+Crime-Rate of our nation & society is Directly Proportional to the “Entertained-Entrapped minds : Engaged-Empowered Minds Ratio.” (Ent : Emp Ratio). and the Peace-Happiness rate is inversely proportional to the En:Em Ratio (Endanger:Enlighten).
Most morally substandard idealogies/Philosophies endanger our social-peace by causing more social-pains, morally advanced idealogies enlighten-societies with more social-peace healing the social-pains.
#Love&Affection Vs #Lust&Infection
Three Steps To Light 1.Language, 2. Logic, 3.Literature-Legalife
The current modern = modeEarn/ModeUrn world has got fixed-mindset goal “Learn to Earn”, Earn & Earn until you burn and turn into an Urn.
This is because in the dys-system mostly the Entrappers are empowered and the empowerers are entrapped due to multiple factors. Any Knowledge-System (& Closed-Idealogy) if unaccepting of feedbacks, criticisms & edits become regressive & irrelevant in a wise-society and oppressive & tyrannical in a Vicious-society.
Readers Benefit: A New Perspective & Paradigm for Wise(Chatura) Efforts(Shrama) for Smarter Peaceful life & living. Readers will be Able to identify the 4 kinds of Human-Natures.
Key Concepts in post: #EntrapVsEmpower Ratio
#4E-HumanNature_Analysis. 4MindStates_WeFind #Crimes&Peace Decoded. #ClosedSourceIdeology vs #OpenSourceIdealogy.
ChaturAshrama 2.0. #Car AurKarobar ka Rista. #Car&Care. #LifeLessons from Car Gears.
Enpowered-Minds Empower other Minds by Engaging +ve_Rationally, while Entrapped-Minds, Entrap other minds by Entertaining -ve_Emotionally.. -GRP@Blr2022
Looking into the Indian-Hindu concepts through the AncienTraditional Indian Philosophy (Indian Knowledge Systems) there is an Idea of 4 stages of life based on age, as below..
1. Bhramacharya (Student upto 25),
2. Grihasta (Householder above 25),
3. Vanaprasta (Retired life @ Jungle Resort after 50) &
4. Sanyasa (Spiritual-liver after 75). Eg.
This classification is based on few assumptions that a person lives for 100 years hence divided in four parts of 25 years by age grouping & depending on Life-options +life-decisions of the majority. But there have been outliers & detours an the lifes path in history & also in living history. And these in modern shifts affected by global cultural conjunction with other philosophies and idealogies have merged and evolved.
Due to these variations the Chatur-ashrama (4-house Scheme) has a mapping gap with current realities & understandings, with reference to ‘Chatur’ means 4 & of ‘Ashrama’ common hindu-understanding is a dwelling or hermitage.
This is a re-think of the stages of life based on attention and transformations.
This will help us identify which ChaturaShrama 2.0 one is in at any point of space & time. This will act like a marked-mirror to one to self-introspect & Self-correct to achieve the ashrama as the destiny one desires, designs & deserves.
This Chatur-framework may especially aid those who are stuck in a life-limbo of Cognitive Dissonance(Critical-Dilemma) and existential-confusion to secularly & securedly see meaningful pathways of Past, Present & Future.
ChaturAshrama + ChaturaShrama = Chatura Prana-Prayana.
4 Stages + Smart EffortStates = Smart Life Journey.
We have Smart-Phones & Live at Smart-Cities in Smart-Homes.. but how are we having mindful Smart-Living creating Smart-Lives?… This post Tries to address this Question.
Fasten the intellectual seat belts of curiosity and take this readers-ride into the roller coaster of life. Metaphorically speaking these are the 4 Gear Choices in our vehicle of life. Which is which see below.
Chatura-shrama: The Smart-Ones(Chatura) 2+1 Divisions of living by efforts(Shrama)..
Life-Illustration Overview: How the Prince Yuvaraja-Goutama became Siddharta-Buddha?..(Modern Movie parallel Jim-Carrey’s Truman-Show & The Matrix ). When his Fathers Royal Astrologer Prophesized his Life-Journey(Prana-Prayana) his dad fixed only two gears in his mind.. of Entertained-State(0) & Entrapped-State(-1) in the Royal Campus.. he may have had few glimpses through the Engaged-State(+1) with is controlled tutoring by Royal-Teachers but real start of Empowered-State(+2x) began with the Red-Pill Aha-Moment(Gear/Paradigm-Shift) with Four Visions of (Old age, Disease, Death & Ascetic) this 1day outing lead to refinement & Enlightenment (Nirvana) and Buddhism for the world.
Chatura-Shrama: 4 States or Classes of our Existence (Gears of Life);
1. Ethical_Class2 Engaged(…) (Amaya_Dharma)(The White Pilled-Seekers) Satva-Sthithi Eg. Annie Besant, Disciples & Followers of Jesus Christ, Law-Student Gandhi in South Africa, Kasturba-Gandhi, JN. Tata(Industrialist), Alexander, Ashoka & Akbar in Childhoods, Indian-Academia..etc. Engaging-Ideologies people are educated & trained for Living/Swimming in the shallow Sea/beach of Knowledge etc (Collaborative-Minds)
2. Ethical_Class-3 Entertained(0) (The Blue-Pilled Common-Men) (Dvijaya_Artha) Rajas-Stithi Eg. Roman-Governor of Jerusalem Pontius-Pilate, Harilal-Gandhi, Newly Married Mohandas Gandhi, (Transition into alcohol), Shah Jahan, Bollywood-Elites, Ashoka before any Conquest Plan.. Entertaining-Ideologies people are living in Superficial-Reality. View of Sea from far enjoying sunset across beach. (Cooperative-Minds)
3. Ethical_Class-4 Entrapped(-ve) (Maya_Kama) (Tamo-Sthithi) (The Black-Pilled Agents) Eg. Mir Jaffar, Judas+ False Prosecutors of Jewsus, Hitler, Abdullah Gandhi(Alcoholic Son of Gandhi), Ajmal-Kasab & Team, Aurangzeb (for Kings-throne Killing- Brother Dara & Jailing Father Shah Jahan), Gandhi (Appeasing Partition seekers & forcing Poona Pact), Godse -Assassinating Gandhi, Ashoka (At wars upto Kalinga), Religious-Expansionists, European-Colonialists & Fascists ..etc.. In an Entrapped-Idealogies it creates Violence and Fascism, Radical-Religionism, Hyper-Capitalism/Ultra-Communism. View of Sea from far fear of getting into water.(Competitive-Minds)
4. Ethical_Class-1 Empowered(+ve). (Vijaya_Moksha) (The Red-Pilled Ones-Neos) Urdha-Satva Sthithi. Eg: Teaching-Buddha, Jesus Christ and other Empowered-Idealogy founders, Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi(Fighting British), Ambedkar, Kabir, Ashoka (After Kalinga war and adoption of Buddhism) , Akbar(Creating Din I illahi), Tagore@ShanthiNiketan, Dara Shikoh, MLK, Lincoln, Mandela, JN Tata(Philantropist).. etc in Empowered-Idealogies it creates more peace by Egalitarian-sharing, Constitutionalism & Democratic-Socialism. Access to Deep-Diving @Deep-Sea for Pearls of Wisdom.(Contributive-Minds)
1. Engaged-State (Gear 1): At a beginning stages of young-age we are just engaged by life & others around us.. This is a learning phase with interactions where we are naive and getting to know things. Our attention is switched high on perceptions and with minimal reactions & unfocused ineffective efforts. State or Guna(Character) of Satvam i.e Goodness. It’s a slower gear impact on life is less but probable impact of life on driver is more. In terms of Response its First-Response to life on the learning curve, adoption phase.(Makers Mindset)
2. Entertained-State (Gear-0): at a restful-Static state we are on neutral gear, where our ignition(Conscious-ness) maybe on or off and Progression/Transmission is near zero. The attention and awareness is present but there is no intention nor capacity for action-reaction or efforts for movement. State of Nirgun or Tamas I.e mode of Ignorance/Enjoyment. This is the Fawn-response to life in adhoc-phase. (Mistakers-
3. Entrapped-State (Reverse gear). This is a regressive state where the movement in the path is negative and brings holistic-loss as the mileage in our journey towards ideal goals and destinies takes a hit and setbacks. State of (CFD) Confusion, Friction & Dysfunction, Distraction+Destruction. State of Rajas, Lowly Passions with lower Compassion. This state more probable End results in Dissonant lives of pain, conflicts, mistakes, risky-failures, disconnections, deceivement, toxic-competitions, unfair-comparisons, alienation-isolation, hurts, devaluation, drudgery & deaths & disintegration finally deformation. This is the negative Flight-Response to life and addiction phase. (Mockers-Victims Mindset creates more Vicious Cycles in life). CFM i.e Capacity For Malice is high Modern Indian-Politics.
4. Empowered-State (Top Gear). This is a highly progressive state(Upa-Satva/Urdha-Satvam) of being and living which propels us towards our ideals & goals of Positivity enabling possibilities of maximum Guna(Quality) & Gana(Quantity) of health, happiness & harmony for all & of all. Practice of this state and drive in this gear Results in Resonant lives of gains, healing, recovery, helps, safe-moves, successes, connection, achievement, toned-cooperation, fair collaborations, introductions and integrations, valuation, visionary, births+growth & integration finally effective Transformations. Our lives purpose is served when we move more in right direction. (Mastery-Victors Mindset creates more Virtuous Cycles in Life.) CFM2 is high Capacity For Mastery.
The choice is Malice or Mastery. Whether one’s mind and group is loyal to New-Delhi following The Indian Constitution or its overided by one’s loyalty to other idealogies of Vatican, Thirupathi, Mecca, Deoband, Mumbai, Nagpur, London, Washington, Beijing, Davos or Moscow.. the Cities are many the game is same.. Engage, Entrap & Dominate.
Life is a Tug-o-War (Sagar-Manthana) between Entertained+Empowered Minds & Engaged+Entrapped-Minds..
The game of Chatura-Shrama has whole challenge of live is the progression from an entertained or engaged state to empowered states(Ladders) while avoiding the entrapped-states(Snakes) through our Shrama(Action of Rolling the Dices/Choices). Metaphorically going from the Reverse Gear to Top-gear on our paths of life.
The possibility to achieve an Empowered State is to achieve understanding of the Right Principles of life to be followed by Dhamma, Dharma, Eudaimonia or Mettha Loving-Kindness and Karuna-Anukampa Compassion for avoiding and preventing Disempowering and enabling Empowerment of Righteousness (Dhamma, Dharma, Destiny).
Conclusion: Destination of life is the Destiny we create for ourselves. We transit through these 4 states in different contexts and stages of life. In context of a video game of life we by playing move gears step by step From an Entertained-Novice to an Engaged-Beginner to an Entrapped-Bad Player and finally with practice and right Swa-Shrama(Self-Efforts) & Shrama-Dana (Coach/Allies-Efforts) we reach our desired-destination of sakshyama(Proficiency and Success) Empowered-Experts moving up Advanced levels of the game of life, where we master the game and life-skills.
Wishing all of us Loka Samstha Satva Bhavathu, May the Whole World live In Goodness and Humaneness.
Regards,
HitaMitra BenGalURU Prasad.
Live is worth living, when we make worthy ideas live.
Application of Chatura-Shrama in Lifes.
From lifes of freedom fighters we see.. that in their childhood they were in engaged state progressed to empowered state.
Eg: Gandhi, Bose, Bhagat-Singh, Ambedkar, other great Indian leaders and freedom-fighters went through the gears of Chatura-Shrama.(Wise-Efforts)
They were in a learner Engaged & Entertained phase as students till 20s, then when in their 30s mid life they struggled in an Entrapped-state by the British-Occupation & Rule, finally nearing 40s they moved to an empowered-state which made them move others & nation as well to empowered-states (Quit-India Movement +World War2).. If there was no movement initiated by these in Empowered-States India may still have been in more entrapped-state.
Though India as a nation is free with it’s own Constitution, the constitution(make) of many Indian minds are not free and still in the lower and reverse gears that are entrapped at Fixed-Victim Mindset(Gear-R), our greatest challenge currently is how to move our collective gear towards an Empowered-State more as Victor’s Growth Mindset(Top-Gear).
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Acknowledgements: This is aggregated interdisciplinary knowledge from various sources of learning at Groups like Bari, VSC, Transdimensions, NIAS-Consciousness Course, Atma Darshana Yoga,.. etc
The ‘4 FacEs of Gandhi’ by his own Words. (Most only know 2faces)
1. Engaged-Gandhiji
2. Entertained-State
3. Entrapped-State
4. Empowered-Gandhiji
Reference Resources:
1. Empathy Gap Divides The Empowered-Brainds & The Entrapped-Brainds (Brain+Mind): What kind of Braind do we have. The Science of this Theory. https://grpvcare2dare.design.blog/2022/06/11/s148-unified-theory-of-everyone-em-c-c/
2. The IdeoPlace for This Ideas here: https://grpvcare2dare.design.blog/2022/04/03/s112-why-2ks-2ts-karnatakakerala-with-telanganatamil-nadu-have-potential-to-define-the-future-of-india-world/
3. Know to see DerpTruths with Trulse-Ratio. https://grpvcare2dare.design.blog/2021/01/18/s42-project-deepdarshi-for-saintsians-the-connected-truths-shall-set-us-free/
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